Immune Quotes

“No matter how badly she hurt, it all boiled down to putting one foot in front of another and repeating that process over and over.”
― Richard Phillips, Immune

“Things look much brighter in the morning.”
― Richard Phillips, Immune

“Long ago, I gave you my soul. Take care of it for me, until I find you again.”
― Richard Phillips, Immune

“Not all addictions were chemically based. How many people could get by without their cars or air-conditioning or refrigeration or electricity? The truth was that mankind was addicted to technology.”
― Richard Phillips, Immune

“Morning plus coffee equals comfort, or some nonsensical equation.”
― Richard Phillips, Immune

“The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn’t seem to squelch the need to hear the words as he read.”
― Richard Phillips, Immune

“allowed him to view the scene from any angle,”
― Richard Phillips, Immune

“As great as the all-volunteer force had been under Ronald Reagan, that force had always been a mighty war ax, something designed to smite the country’s opponents with overwhelming combat power, rapidly destroying all resistance before being returned to the shed to be sharpened and hung back on the wall to await its next use. For years now, this awesome force had been used like a hatchet, thousands of small strokes steadily dulling its blade, no downtime allotted for resharpening. A new political philosophy for the use of America’s military had emerged in Washington, a violation of the Powell Doctrine that Jack called the “Strategy of Underwhelming Combat Power,” a term that yielded the unfortunate abbreviation “SUC”
― Richard Phillips, Immune